He is not the only pebble on the beach.
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Pebble
//ˈpɛb.əl//
Synonyms for "pebble" (78 found)
Ranked by relevance and common usage.
Closest matches (16)
Strong matches (23)
Related words (39)
Related word relations
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More general
2 entriesat location
12 entriescoordinate
1 entriesderived
16 entrieshas context
2 entriesis a
10 entriesrelated to
10 entriesused for
24 entriesconstruct thingscovering exposed soil in landscapingcreating garden pathdecorating fishtankdraw on sandfilling small holesgetting someones attention by throwinglookingmarking visit to gravesitepaving drivewaypaving pathputting in fish acquariumputting in flower vaseskipping across waterskipping on lakethrowing
Showing 16 of 24 words.
Translations
141 translations across 68 languages.
Afrikaans
2 entries- kiesel noun (stone)
- spoelklippie noun (stone)
Albanian
2 entries- hakëll noun (stone)
- çakëll noun (stone)
Ancient Greek
2 entries- χάλιξ noun (stone)
- ψῆφος noun (stone)
Arabic
4 entries- حصوة noun (stone)
- حصى noun (stone)
- حَصَاة noun (stone)
- حَصْوة noun (stone)
Aromanian
1 entries- chitritseauã noun (stone)
Azerbaijani
2 entries- xırda çaydaşı noun (stone)
- çınqıl noun (stone)
Brunei Malay
1 entries- batu noun (stone)
Bulgarian
1 entries- гладко камъче noun (stone)
Catalan
3 entries- còdol noun (stone)
- mac noun (stone)
- empedrar verb (To pave with pebbles)
Central Kurdish
1 entries- زیخ noun (stone)
Chinese Cantonese
1 entries- 石仔 noun (stone)
Chinese Mandarin
4 entries- 卵石 noun (stone)
- 石子 noun (stone)
- 礫石 /砾石 noun (stone)
- 鵝卵石 /鹅卵石 noun (stone)
Classical Nahuatl
1 entries- ātōyātetl noun (stone)
Cornish
2 entries- bili noun (stone)
- bilien noun (stone)
Czech
1 entries- oblázek noun (stone)
Danish
1 entries- ral noun (stone)
Dutch
3 entries- kei noun (stone)
- kiezel noun (stone)
- steen noun (stone)
Esperanto
1 entries- ŝtoneto noun (stone)
Estonian
1 entries- veeris noun (stone)
Finnish
2 entries- pikkukivi noun (stone)
- päällystää mukulakivillä verb (To pave with pebbles)
Franco-Provençal
1 entries- calyou noun (stone)
French
3 entries- caillou noun (stone)
- galet noun (stone)
- gravillon noun (rock fragment between 4 and 64 millimetres in diameter)
Galician
4 entries- brello noun (stone)
- callau noun (stone)
- candollo noun (stone)
- coio noun (stone)
Georgian
1 entries- კენჭი noun (stone)
German
4 entries- Kiesel noun (stone)
- Kieselstein noun (stone)
- Stein noun (stone)
- Steinchen noun (stone)
Hebrew
1 entries- חַלּוּק noun (stone)
Hindi
2 entries- कंकड़ noun (rock fragment between 4 and 64 millimetres in diameter)
- पत्थर noun (stone)
Hungarian
1 entries- kavics noun (stone)
Icelandic
1 entries- steinn noun (stone)
Ido
2 entries- stoneto noun (stone)
- stono noun (stone)
Indonesian
1 entries- kerikil noun (stone)
Irish
1 entries- méaróg noun (stone)
Italian
2 entries- ciottolo noun (stone)
- acciottolare verb (To pave with pebbles)
Japanese
1 entries- 小石 noun (stone)
Kazakh
1 entries- жұмыр тас noun (stone)
Korean
1 entries- 자갈 noun (stone)
Latgalian
2 entries- akmisteņš noun (stone)
- ūļs noun (stone)
Latin
2 entries- calculus noun (stone)
- lapillus noun (stone)
Latvian
1 entries- olis noun (stone)
Lithuanian
3 entries- akmenukas noun (stone)
- gargždas noun (stone)
- žvirgždas noun (stone)
Luxembourgish
2 entries- Kiselsteen noun (stone)
- Wak noun (stone)
Macedonian
3 entries- грагор noun (rock fragment between 4 and 64 millimetres in diameter)
- камче noun (stone)
- чакал noun (rock fragment between 4 and 64 millimetres in diameter)
Maltese
1 entries- ċagħqa noun (stone)
Navajo
1 entries- tséʼáwózí noun (stone)
Norman
2 entries- galet noun (stone)
- galot noun (stone)
Northern Kurdish
1 entries- zixir noun (stone)
Norwegian
3 entries- grus noun (rock fragment between 4 and 64 millimetres in diameter)
- pukk noun (rock fragment between 4 and 64 millimetres in diameter)
- gruslegge verb (To pave with pebbles)
Norwegian Bokmål
2 entries- småstein noun (stone)
- småsten noun (stone)
Norwegian Nynorsk
1 entries- småstein noun (stone)
Persian
2 entries- ریگ noun (stone)
- سنگریزه noun (stone)
Polish
3 entries- kamyczek noun (stone)
- kamyk noun (stone)
- otoczak noun (rock fragment between 4 and 64 millimetres in diameter)
Portuguese
4 entries- pedregulho noun (stone)
- pedrinha noun (stone)
- seixo noun (stone)
- seixo noun (rock fragment between 4 and 64 millimetres in diameter)
Romanian
3 entries- pietricică noun (stone)
- pietriș noun (stone)
- prundiș noun (stone)
Russian
1 entries- га́лька noun (stone)
Scottish Gaelic
1 entries- dèideag noun (stone)
Sicilian
3 entries- pitruzza noun (stone)
- pitruzzeḍḍa noun (stone)
- timpa noun (stone)
Slovak
1 entries- okruhliak noun (stone)
Spanish
4 entries- aguija noun (stone)
- callao noun (stone)
- canto noun (stone)
- canto pelado noun (stone)
Swedish
1 entries- småsten noun (stone)
Tagalog
1 entries- mikbato noun (stone)
Tajik
1 entries- шағал noun (stone)
Tamil
1 entries- கூழாங்கல் noun (stone)
Thai
1 entries- กรวด noun (stone)
Turkish
1 entries- çakıl noun (stone)
Ukrainian
1 entries- га́лька noun (stone)
Welsh
1 entries- carreg gron noun (stone)
Woiwurrung
1 entries- moomowroong noun (stone)
Yiddish
2 entries- שטיינדל noun (stone)
- שטיינדעלע noun (stone)
Sample sentences
15 total sentences available.
The pebble I threw skipped along the surface of the water.
Source: tatoeba (279679)
She stooped to pick up a pebble.
Source: tatoeba (315226)
I have a pebble in my shoe.
Source: tatoeba (2258774)
Showing 4 of 15 available sentences.
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